How to Use the Funding Alerts API to Track New Deals with Fundable

TL;DR: Create a saved deal alert in Fundable for a theme, stage, or founder, and every company that matches comes to you as it raises. With no code, Pro+ delivers alerts to Slack and Teams. With code, the Funding Alerts API pulls the same matches into any pipeline or CRM, and both are credit-free.

If you sell to startups, a company that just raised is your best-timed lead: it is suddenly buying tools it could not justify a month ago. A deal alert catches those companies as they raise and delivers them matched to your ICP, so you reach them while the budget is new. What follows is how to set one up, first in the app with no code, then through the Funding Alerts API. Fundable is a real-time VC funding and startup data platform.

What is a deal alert

A deal alert is a saved filter that captures every company matching it the moment it raises, and delivers the match with the reasoning and its source articles. You set the filter once, by theme, stage, founder, or investor, and Fundable does the watching.

Why set up deal alerts

Funding is a timing signal, and the window closes within weeks. Checking for new raises by hand means someone remembers to run the search every day. A deal alert removes that step, and the matches come to you as they happen, a live list rather than a stale export.

Ways to get funding alerts

• Built-in deal alerts, delivered to your tools with no code (this walkthrough, Pro+ for delivery).
• The Funding Alerts API, to pull matches into a custom destination (below, Pro+).
• Poll the companies endpoint yourself on any paid plan. See how to track newly funded startups with an API.

What you need

• A Fundable account: Pro includes 3 saved alerts, Pro+ includes 10, plus Slack and Teams delivery and the alerts API.
• For no-code delivery, Slack or Microsoft Teams connected.
• For the API path, an API key passed as a Bearer token.

Set up a deal alert in the app, no code

1. Create the alert. Describe what you want in plain language and set the filter. Sales teams use three cuts: match your ICP by sector, stage, and geography; track expansion signals from companies moving into your markets; or build a territory pipeline by location and recent raises.

2. Choose where it delivers. Connect Slack or Teams and point the alert at it. For any other destination, such as a CRM or a sheet, use the Funding Alerts API below.

3. Let it run. Every new company that matches arrives with the reasoning for the match, and you can have a verified contact for a decision maker attached, email and LinkedIn included, so the list is ready to send without opening Fundable.

Outcome: new raises that fit your ICP land in Slack or Teams as they happen, matched and ready to work, with no query to run.

See it in action:

Pull alerts with the Funding Alerts API

For a custom destination or a scheduled job, pull the same saved-alert matches with the Funding Alerts API, on Pro+. It is credit-free.

1. List your alerts. Call GET /alerts/configurations to get your alert IDs and filters.

2. Request the matches. Call GET /alerts with your alert IDs and a bounded UTC date window. The response returns each alert's deals, deduped and newest first, each with the reasoning and its source articles.

GET https://www.tryfundable.ai/api/v1/alerts?alert_ids=ALERT_UUID_1,ALERT_UUID_2&start_date=2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z&end_date=2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
Authorization: Bearer vg_your_api_key

3. Route by alert. Keep the alert ID and the match reasoning with each record so you can send different alerts to different channels, CRM lists, or queues. Advance a UTC checkpoint each run, and dedupe on the deal ID, so nothing sends twice.

The full workflow guide covers checkpoints and retry-safe processing.

When to use each

Use built-in alerts when you want the signal in Slack or Teams with no code. Use the Funding Alerts API when you are routing matches into a CRM, a sheet, or your own pipeline. Either way you are consuming the same saved alerts, so start in the app and move to the API when you need a custom build.

Get funding alerts where you work

Set up a deal alert and let new raises come to you in Slack or Teams, matched and de-duped.

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